Q: What is Wavelength? AWS Wavelength provides developers the ability to build applications that serve end-users with single-digit millisecond latencies over the 5G network. Wavelength embeds AWS compute and storage services at the edge of telecommunications providers...
5G networks, enabling developers to serve use-cases that require ultra-low latency like machine learning inference at the edge, autonomous industrial equipment, smart cars and cities, Internet of Things (IoT), and Augmented and Virtual Reality. Wavelength brings the full power of
AWS to the edge of the 5G network, so customers can deploy the portions of an application that requires ultra-low latency to mobile and connected devices using the 5G network, and then seamlessly connect back to the rest of the application and the full range of cloud services
running in AWS. AWS customers can now use the same familiar AWS APIs, tools, and functionality they use today, to deliver-low latency applications at the edge of the 5G network around the world. #AWS #Wavelength
Q: Why should I use #Wavelength? With AWS global infrastructure that consists of 69 Availability Zones in 22 AWS Regions around the world, AWS enables developers to serve end-users with very low latencies globally. However, there is a new class of emerging interactive...
applications that are both compute-intensive and very sensitive to latency. In addition, these use-cases require some of their data processing to take place close to the source, in order to conserve resources like device power and bandwidth. For these applications, 5G networks,
which are up to 20 times faster than 4G, offer a lot of promise. Yet, even with 5G’s network advancements, mobile devices still have to cross multiple network “hops” when connecting to an application over the Internet (from the device, to the mobile network, and then to the
Internet), which can result in latencies of more than 100 milliseconds. AWS Wavelength addresses these problems by bringing processing power as close as possible to connected devices and wireless users, eliminating the multiple hops involved in connecting 5G devices and the
internet, and enabling developers to take full advantage of the advancements of 5G networks. #AWS #Wavelength #5G #reinvent19 #edge
